Access the hosting platform not by clicks but programmatically: creating an environment, reading a log, triggering a deploy or tearing it all down from a script. Whether it is public or restricted to partners is recorded on each provider’s page. Providers without one can only be operated by a person clicking.
105 providers publish an API, listed alphabetically. Mostly gpu cloud, platform as a service and virtual private servers, of 15 categories in all. 103 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
- alwaysdata
French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
- Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
- Appwrite
Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
- AWS Lambda
Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.
- Azure
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
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- Back4App
Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
- Baseten
AI inference platform offering token-priced model APIs and dedicated GPU deployments of customers' own models, billed per minute and able to scale to zero.
- Beam
Serverless GPU platform where Python functions and container images run as autoscaling endpoints, task queues and sandboxes, with on-demand GPU machines beside them.
- Beget
Beget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
- Bunny.net
Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
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- Cerebrium
Serverless GPU platform for real-time AI workloads, running Python apps and custom Docker containers that scale to zero and bill per second.
- Cherry Servers
Lithuanian provider selling dedicated machines and virtual servers on its own hardware, billed by the hour, by fixed term or as spot capacity.
- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
- Clever Cloud
French platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.
- cloudscale.ch
Swiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
- Combell
Belgian hosting provider offering shared PHP and Node.js hosting, VPS and OpenStack from data centres in Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Contabo
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
- Crusoe
US AI infrastructure company renting GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and model inference from its own data centers.
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- Deno DeployOne we like
Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
- DigitalOceanOne we like
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
- DigitalOcean Functions
DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.
- Dinahosting
Dinahosting is an independent Galician host selling shared hosting, domains and email from its own servers in Spain.
- Divio
Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.
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- E2B
A cloud API that starts isolated Linux microVMs on demand, for an AI agent to run code in.
- Elestio
Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.
- Emergent
An AI builder that generates a full-stack application from a natural-language prompt and deploys it to its own infrastructure.
- exe.devOne we like
Ubuntu VMs in seconds over SSH, sold as a pool of capacity rather than as machines, and aimed as much at agents as at people.
- Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
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- Firebase
Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.
- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
- Framer
A visual website builder that hosts and publishes what it designs, with a built-in content model.
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- Galaxy
Container hosting for Meteor.js, Node.js, Python and AdonisJS apps, billed by the container-hour, from Meteor Software.
- Gandi
Gandi is a French registrar whose Simple Hosting product runs application code in per-customer Linux containers, deployed by git or SFTP.
- Gcore
Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.
- GitHub PagesOne we like
Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
- GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
- Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.
- Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.
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- here.now
Static hosting that turns an agent's files into a live URL, with no account needed for a temporary one.
- HetznerOne we like
Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.
- HOSTAFRICA
Pan-African host with storefronts in five countries, running cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting out of South African facilities.
- HostimOne we like
Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.
- Hostinger
Hostinger is a Lithuanian budget host selling shared, cloud, and VPS hosting plus a website builder, all administered through its own hPanel control panel.
- Hugging Face
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
- Hypernode
Dutch platform built for Magento and Shopware, descended from Byte's engineering and now part of team.blue.
- Hyperstack
GPU cloud from London's NexGen Cloud, selling GPU virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and a token-priced model API.
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- IONOS
Large European hosting group selling shared webhosting, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers and an IaaS cloud, listed on the Frankfurt exchange.
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- Kamatera
Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure company selling hourly-billed cloud servers, block storage, load balancers and firewalls from data centres worldwide.
- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPUs and serverless Postgres.
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- Lambda
US GPU cloud selling on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, reserved multi-node clusters and private cloud capacity.
- Laravel Cloud
Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings — managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.
- Latitude.sh
Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
- Liara
An Iranian cloud platform selling platform-as-a-service, virtual servers and managed databases, priced and billed in Iranian rial.
- Linode
Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.
- Lolipop!
Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.
- Loopia
Swedish hosting provider and registrar in Västerås offering Linux and Windows shared hosting with SSH, PHP, Python, Perl and ASP.NET.
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- Mittwald
German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.
- Modal
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
- Mythic Beasts
British host selling web and email hosting in a long ladder of graded sizes, with a choice of PHP release per site and MySQL as standard.
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- Nebius
Amsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.
- NetlifyOne we like
Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.
- Nhost
Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
- Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
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- omg.lol
A personal internet address bundling a profile page, email forwarding and a handful of small web tools for one flat yearly price.
- Opalstack
Developer-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.
- OVHcloud
French hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centres it builds and operates itself.
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- PlanetHoster
Franco-Canadian host with data centres in Paris, Lausanne and Montreal, letting a customer pick the location per project.
- Ploi CloudOne we like
Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.
- Pressable
Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.
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- RailwayOne we like
Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.
- Render
Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.
- Runpod
US GPU cloud renting containerized GPU Pods, serverless GPU endpoints and hosted model APIs.
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- SaladCloud
Container platform that runs customer images on idle consumer GPUs contributed by a distributed network of home and small-business machines.
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Scaleway Functions
European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.
- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- Selectel
Selectel is a Russian infrastructure company running its own data centres in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.
- Sesterce
French GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, bare-metal servers and inference endpoints by the hour from a prepaid balance.
- Sevalla
Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.
- Simply.com
Danish shared hosting provider selling bundles of web space, mail and a website builder, with a documented public API alongside.
- SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
- Sliplane
German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.
- statichost.eu
Swedish static site host that clones any git repository, builds it in a Docker image of your choosing and serves the output from European infrastructure without logging visitors.
- Supabase
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
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- TensorDock
US marketplace selling GPU virtual machines on servers supplied by independent hosts, now owned by Voltage Park.
- Thunder Compute
GPU cloud renting NVIDIA GPU instances by the minute, managed from a CLI, an editor extension or an MCP server.
- Tigris
Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.
- TransIP
Dutch registrar and hosting provider selling shared webhosting, VPS, OpenStack cloud and managed Kubernetes from its own Netherlands data centres.
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- Vast.ai
US marketplace where independent hosts rent out GPU machines as containers or virtual machines at prices they set.
- VercelOne we like
Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.
- Verda
Finnish GPU cloud selling GPU virtual machines, multi-node clusters and serverless containers from data centers in Helsinki.
- Vultr
Cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual private servers, bare metal, GPU instances, object storage and managed Kubernetes, billed by the hour.
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- Walrus
Decentralized storage protocol from Mysten Labs and part of the Sui stack, with a site-hosting layer served through public portals such as wal.app.
- Webdock
Danish VPS provider selling virtual servers with a web control panel, prepared stacks and WordPress plans, from a single facility in Denmark.
- Webflow
Webflow is a visual design platform that hosts sites and provides a built-in CMS.
- WebSupport
Slovakia's largest domain registrar, selling shared hosting and a website builder across Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary from its own data centre.
- WP Engine
Managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.
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- Xserver
Japanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.
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- Zeabur
Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
- Zone Media
Estonian hosting provider and domain registrar, selling shared hosting and cloud servers from northern European locations.
Which of these providers is best?
We don't know. A static portfolio and a busy shop need different things from a host, and so do a freelancer and an agency with forty client sites. Nobody pays to be listed here and the order is alphabetical. The guide covers what to compare.